I put about 50/50 odds on another coup attempt between now and the end of January 20.
Now’s the best time, if you are going to do such a thing.
Day: January 11, 2021, 4:21 PM
Jamba Band
Violently overrunning police to storm the seat of government during a joint session of congress in a bid to overturn the result of a presidential election is categorically different from smashing the window of a Jamba Juice during a BLM protest. So f*cking stop it, right now.
— Will Wilkinson 🌐 (@willwilkinson) January 7, 2021
Aye, proper nailed it. Why is that not clear to more people?
LARP DERP
It’s a game. LARPing is a game. Qanon narrative is a game. Kayfabe is a game. A serious game, to be sure, but basically a game.
(Also: the intense stupidity of many of these folks is not to be dismissed as an important explanatory factor for a lot of what we are observing.) https://t.co/fiR3Q3bTME
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) January 11, 2021
Yeah, ain’t that a hoot?
Insurrectionist Calendar:
Monday: Work, mow lawn.
Tuesday: Work, wash clothes.
Wednesday: Sedition, insurrection, treason, coup.
Thursday: Work, clean kitchen. Prison for sedition. Oops.
Friday: Work, take cat to vet. Prison for sedition. Oops.
Saturday: Muddin’ with the boys. Prison for sedition. Oops.
Sunday Huntin’ and drinkin’. Prison for sedition. Oops.
Coup de maladroit
It is kind of hilarious when you think about it that Capitol was deliberately left undefended, and the doofuses who support Trump couldn’t even pull off a coup that the average kindergarten class could’ve made good on.
Fail hard and fail early, I guess.
Different World
I'm still not sure we're doing enough to reckon with how close we came this week to livestreamed mass assassinations
— Alex Fitzpatrick (@AlexJamesFitz) January 10, 2021
It’s because people don’t want to believe it. But it was close — if the serious guys, those with guns, bombs and zip ties, had made in a few minutes earlier it’d be a very different world now.
Pelosi and Pence would probably be dead, and likely dozens of others. The US would be under martial law and would stay that way for a while.
Just got lucky, is all. Won’t happen again.
Reasons
Your daily reminder that the insulin I’ve used for 24 years, Humalog, has gone from $21 a vial to $275 a vial with no changes to the insulin or even the packaging. That’s a 1200% increase on a hormone every human requires to live, but my body can’t make. I die in 48 hours w/o it
— Laura Marston (@Kidfears99) January 10, 2021
According to centrists and much of the right, this is just the way things must be for…reasons. And anything else is impossible.
Never mind that literally every other country in the world manages to do better than this. It’s just How It Is And Must BeTM.